From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 20:41:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF23106566B for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) Received: from mail.yellowspace.net (mail.yellowspace.net [80.190.200.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D055E8FC08 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) Received: from furia.intranet ([93.104.99.4]) (AUTH: LOGIN lopez.on.the.lists@yellowspace.net) by mail.yellowspace.net with esmtp; Thu, 28 May 2009 22:41:43 +0200 id 00495130.000000004A1EF707.000129F9 Message-Id: <63548432-B73D-4A08-BA99-FEF5BCC1028A@yellowspace.net> From: Lorenzo Perone To: Mickael MAILLOT In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.4) Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 22:41:42 +0200 References: <29579856-69F7-4CDC-A52A-B414A40180ED@yellowspace.net> <4A1B0B4F.1020106@h3q.com> <18972.5870.795005.186542@already.dhcp.gene.com> <4A1C18CC.7080902@icyb.net.ua> <18972.7173.216763.407615@already.dhcp.gene.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.4) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List Subject: Re: ZFS booting without partitions (was: ZFS boot on zfs mirror) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:45 -0000 On 28.05.2009, at 21:46, Mickael MAILLOT wrote: > hi, > > did you erase gmirror meta ? (on the last sector) > with: gmirror clear ad6 ohps I had forgotten that. just did it (in single user mode), but it didn't help :( Shall I repeat any of the other steps after clearing gmirror meta? thanx a lot for your help... Lorenzo > 2009/5/28 Lorenzo Perone : >> Hi, >> >> I tried hard... but without success ;( >> >> the result is, when choosing the disk with the zfs boot >> sectors in it (in my case F5, which goes to ad6), the kernel >> is not found. the console shows: >> >> forth not found >> definitions not found >> only not found >> (the above repeated several times) >> >> can't load 'kernel' >> >> and I get thrown to the loader prompt. >> lsdev does not show any ZFS devices. >> >> Strange thing: if I boot from the other disk, F1, which is my >> ad4 containing the normal ufs system I used to make up the other >> one, and escape to the loader prompt, lsdev actually sees the >> zpool which is on the other disk, and shows: >> zfs0: tank >> >> I tried booting with boot zfs:tank or zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel, >> but there I get the panic: free: guard1 fail message. >> (would boot zfs:tank:/boot/kernel/kernel be correct, anyways?) >> >> Sure I'm doing something wrong, but what...? Is it a problem that >> the pool is made out of the second disk only (ad6)? >> >> Here are my details (note: latest stable and biosdisk.c merged >> with changes shown in r185095. no problems in buildworld/kernel): >> (....)